Sarvam AI
Indian artificial intelligence company
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Sarvam AI is an Indian artificial intelligence company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Founded in 2023, the company develops large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI systems with a focus on Indian languages and region-specific use cases.[1]
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | August 2023 |
| Founders | Vivek Raghavan; Pratyush Kumar |
| Headquarters | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
Area served | India |
| Products | Large language models; Speech recognition systems; Vision-language models |
| Website | https://www.sarvam.ai/ (Main Website)
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The company has received venture capital backing and has participated in government-supported AI initiatives, including India’s sovereign large language model programme under the IndiaAI Mission.[2]
History
Sarvam AI was founded in August 2023 by Vivek Raghavan and Pratyush Kumar, who were previously associated with AI4Bharat at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.[1] In December 2023, the company announced a combined seed and Series A funding round of approximately US$41 million. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures.[3]
In April 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) selected Sarvam AI as one of the companies to develop an indigenous foundational model under the IndiaAI Mission.[4] As part of the initiative, the company received access to government-supported computing infrastructure, including GPUs allocated for model training over a specified period.[4]
In February 2026, Sarvam AI introduced two large language models at the AI Impact Summit held at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.[5]
Products and technology
Sarvam AI develops language models trained on datasets that include multiple Indian languages and code-mixed text. The company uses mixture-of-experts (MoE) architectures in some of its models.[5]
Foundational language models
On 18 February 2026, the company announced the release of two foundational models:
- Sarvam-30B – A 30-billion parameter model based on a mixture-of-experts design. According to company disclosures reported by the media, the model activates approximately 1 billion parameters per token and supports a 32,000-token context window.[5]
- Sarvam-105B – A 105-billion parameter model activating approximately 9 billion parameters per token, with a 128,000-token context window. The model is positioned for complex reasoning and enterprise applications.[6]
On 20th February 2026, the company released a beta version of the Sarvam-105B model which is named 'Indus'. It is available on the Apple iOS store,Google play store and the web.[7]
Speech and vision systems
Sarvam AI has also developed multimodal systems including speech-to-text and vision-language models. Its speech model, referred to as Saaras V3 in company materials, supports multiple Indian languages.[8]
The company has also introduced a vision-language model known as Sarvam Vision, intended for document understanding and optical character recognition (OCR) in Indian scripts.[9]
Startup support
In March 2026, Sarvam AI launched the Sarvam Startup Program, an initiative providing selected early-stage companies with 6–12 months of API credits scaled to their needs, priority engineering support, and access to production infrastructure for developing multilingual AI applications in areas such as speech, translation, and large language models.[10][11]